neurorehabilitation in vr

neurorehabilitation in vr

How might we improve neurorehabilitation of stroke patients with VR?

Year
2017
Group project
part of ongoing research within Inamura Lab at the National Institute of Informatics [Japan] 国立情報学研究所.
Skills/contributions
Experimental design, neuroscience, UI/UX, code, academic writing
Please Note: 3D modelling of the hand avatar and virtual space was NOT done by myself, so I do not take full credit.
Institution
国立情報学研究所 National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Conference
A Platform for Hand Embodiment and Alien Motion in Virtual Reality in Proceedings of the 36th annual conference of The Robotics Society of Japan[5]
tags
neuroscience, future of medicine, vr

This project was focused on developing a VR-based platform[1] for the neurorehabilitaion of patients with impaired motor ability (such as stroke patients)[2] and studying the sense of Agency and Ownership over a virtual hand controlled by a user in VR using finger tracking hardware[3]. The platform can be compared to an evolution upon mirror box therapy for more complex use-cases.

My contribution was focused on designing systems that could be used to study the changes in behavior of a subject when given visual stimuli that may contrast with their physical movements in the real world[4].

The platform was presented on 6 September 2018 at the 36th annual conference of The Robotics Society of Japan[5].

Parts of this project cannot be shared publicly at this time, so please reach out for further information.

neurorehabilitation in vr
references
  1. [1] Inamura, T. & Mizuchi, Y. (2021). SIGVerse: a cloud-based VR platform for research on multimodal human-robot interaction. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8202404/
  2. [2] Soccini, A. M. (2024). Self-Avatar Motion Retargeting for Virtual Reality Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy. CHI Extended Abstracts. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3651131
  3. [3] Soccini, A. M., Grangetto, M., Inamura, T. & Shimada, S. (2019). Virtual Hand Illusion: The Alien Finger Motion Experiment. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. eidos.di.unito.it/publication/soccini-20191165/
  4. [4] Soccini, A. M., Clocchiatti, A. & Inamura, T. (2022). Effects of Frequent Changes in Extended Self-Avatar Movements on Adaptation Performance. Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics. fujipress.jp/jrm/rb/robot003400040756/
  5. [5] Soccini, A. M., Hoonjan, S., Grangetto, M. & Inamura, T. (2018). A Platform for Hand Embodiment and Alien Motion in Virtual Reality. 36th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, talk 2I1-02 (archived programme). web.archive.org/web/20191124151316/http://rsj2018.rsj-web.or
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